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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
Milnor considers how the fragments of textual graffiti which survive on the walls of the Roman city of Pompeii reflect and refract the literary world from which they emerged. The volume looks in detail at the role and nature of 'popular' literature...
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Milnor considers how the fragments of textual graffiti which survive on the walls of the Roman city of Pompeii reflect and refract the literary world from which they emerged. The volume looks in detail at the role and nature of 'popular' literature in the early Roman Empire and the place of poetry in the Pompeian cityscape. Cover -- Graffiti and the Literary Landscape in Roman Pompeii -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Plates -- Introduction -- MATERIAL MATTERS -- SPEAKING AND WRITING -- WHAT'S 'LITERARY' ABOUT LITERARY GRAFFITI? -- 1: Landscape and Literature in the Roman City -- AUTHORSHIP AND AUTHORITY -- BETWEEN EPITAPH AND EPIGRAM -- IMAGE AND TEXT IN THE POMPEIAN CITYSCAPE -- 2: Poetic Politics, Political Poetics -- POETIC POLITICS -- POLITICAL POETICS -- 3: Authorship, Appropriation, Authenticity -- TIBURTINUS AND 'THE AUTHOR EFFECT' -- NAMING NAMES: IDENTITY AND EPISTOLOGRAPHY IN POMPEIAN GRAFFITI -- FRAGMENTARY THINKING, SPEAKING, AND WRITING -- 4: Gender and Genre: The Case of CIL 4. 5296 -- NO PLACE FOR A WOMAN: IN SEARCH OF THE FEMALE VOICE OF CIL 4. 5296 -- METER AND MATERIAL -- LOVE, SEX, MATERIALITY -- APPENDIX 4.1: ON THE LOCATION OF CIL 4. 5296 -- 5: A Culture of Quotation: Virgil, Education, and Literary Ownership -- ARMS AND THE MAN -- SPEAKING OUT -- APPENDIX 5.1: QUOTATIONS FROM VIRGIL ON POMPEIAN WALLS -- Aeneid -- Eclogues -- Georgics -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index of Sources -- General Index.
